Senior Technical Program Manager, Chip Tools

Details

NVIDIA's chips power everything from AI supercomputers to autonomous vehicles. The internal tools hardware engineers rely on are critical to delivering silicon on schedule. As TPM for Chip Tools, you will drive dependency management, tool readiness, and roadmap alignment across the chip development lifecycle, starting with chip fuse and programming infrastructure and expanding across the full Chip Tools portfolio. Hardware Infrastructure builds and operates systems, environments, and tools that enable hardware engineers to design, simulate, validate, and tape out chips, and supports software teams through source control platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program management for Chip Tools (beginning with Fuse), ensuring reliability, uptime, and performance meet hardware engineering needs across the chip lifecycle.
• Drive tool health initiatives: define SLOs, track incidents, lead root cause analysis, and deliver improvement roadmaps to reduce friction and prevent recurrence.
• Build and maintain a dependency map across Chip Tools to surface risk, handle conflicts, and ensure alignment with the chip roadmap.
• Partner with HW engineering leads to translate the chip roadmap into tool readiness requirements; proactively identify gaps and mobilize engineering resources.
• Facilitate cross-team coordination across tool developers, infrastructure teams, and HW users: run structured program reviews, track action items, and hold teams accountable.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting mechanisms to provide leadership and customers real-time insight into tool health, open risks, and delivery status.
• Evolve Chip Tools from reactive support into a proactive, system-focused operating model and build the processes to get there.
• Onboard new tools into the Chip Tools portfolio as scope expands, establishing consistent standards for program management, change control, and incident response.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of technical program management experience, ideally in hardware, chip development, or engineering infrastructure environments.
• Deep familiarity with the hardware development lifecycle: design, verification, and manufacturing, and where tools are critical path.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder programs with many interdependencies in a fast-moving organization.
• Strong instincts for dependency management: able to build and read a dependency graph, assess risk, and drive mitigations.
• Experience owning tool or infrastructure reliability programs, including uptime, incident management, and SLO frameworks.
• Clear and direct communicator capable of translating technical complexity into executive summaries and partnering with engineers and senior leadership.
• Data-driven approach to program management: instrument what you own and use data to bring awareness, prioritize, and demonstrate progress.

Ways to Stand Out

• Direct experience with chip fusing, programming, or test infrastructure tools in a semiconductor company.
• Background owning internal developer tooling or platform engineering programs at scale.
• Familiarity with NVIDIA's or comparable semiconductor chip development processes.
• Experience building program management frameworks from the ground up in ambiguous environments.
• Track record of growing a TPM scope horizontally across a portfolio of tools.

Benefits

• Base salary range: 200,000 USD - 322,000 USD (determined based on location, experience, and pay of employees in similar positions).
• Eligible for equity and company benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 22, 2026. NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes and is an equal opportunity employer.